cURL with Visual Studio 2013

Question

So i have came along with cURL as a very nice library and working very fine in OSX. But on windows now i have got big troubles with getting ready with this library. I googl

Answer 1

Had problems myself, finally got it working now. I downloaded curl-7.42.1.zip from the official website. Within the archive you'll find the source code and winbuild/BUILD.WINDOWS.txt, which basically contains the instructions I followed. I'll assume that it has been unzipped to C:\curl-7.42.1.

Open the Visual Studio command prompt located at

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\Tools\Shortcuts

This automatically sets the environment variables needed to use Visual Studio tools like the compiler. Then move to the winbuild directory and call

nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=dll

as described in the text file I mentioned above.

That will create the directory

C:\curl-7.42.1\builds\libcurl-vc-x86-release-dll-ipv6-sspi-winssl

containing libcurl.dll, libcurl.lib and the necessary header files. Let's rename it to C:\curl-7.42.1\builds\release :'D

1. Then open your project.
2. Open your project's properties.
3. Make sure you choose Release as configuration (top left corner)!
4. Navigate to VC++ Directories > Include directories and add C:\curl-7.42.1\builds\release\include
5. Add C:\curl-7.42.1\builds\release\lib to VC++ Directories > Library directories.
6. Go to Linker > Input > Additional Dependencies and add libcurl.lib.
7. Finally copy C:\curl-7.42.1\builds\release\bin\libcurl.dll to your project folder.

That should do the trick! :D If you want to use cURL in debug mode, you can do almost the same, recompile using nmake /f Makefile.vc mode=dll debug=yes, go to your project's properties, add the newly created directory paths (changing libcurl.lib to libcurl_debug.lib) and you should be done.